{"id":228759,"date":"2026-03-29T02:07:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T06:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/29\/wayland-is-getting-a-6-year-long-fix-for-its-most-annoying-quirk-and-kde-and-gnome-are-already-implementing-it\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T04:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T08:35:09","slug":"wayland-is-getting-a-6-year-long-fix-for-its-most-annoying-quirk-and-kde-and-gnome-are-already-implementing-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/29\/wayland-is-getting-a-6-year-long-fix-for-its-most-annoying-quirk-and-kde-and-gnome-are-already-implementing-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Wayland is getting a 6-year-long fix for its most annoying quirk, and KDE and GNOME are already implementing it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xda-developers.com\/wayland-is-getting-a-6-year-long-fix-for-its-most-annoying-quirk-and-kde-and-gnome-are-already-implementing-it\/\">Wayland is getting a 6-year-long fix for its most annoying quirk, and KDE and GNOME are already implementing it<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xda-developers.com\/wayland-is-getting-a-6-year-long-fix-for-its-most-annoying-quirk-and-kde-and-gnome-are-already-implementing-it\/\">https:\/\/www.xda-developers.com\/wayland-is-getting-a-6-year-long-fix-for-its-most-annoying-quirk-and-kde-and-gnome-are-already-implementing-it\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-29 02:07:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.xda-developers.com\">www.xda-developers.com<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"title icon i-list\">Summary<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n                                        xdg-session-management has been merged after six years; it enables restoring window positions after crashes\/logouts.\n                        <\/li>\n<li>\n                                        KDE and GNOME are actively implementing it; desktop support should appear soon.\n                        <\/li>\n<li>\n                                        Protocol finalised, but distributions must implement it before Wayland restores sessions by default.\n                        <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve used a Wayland-based Linux operating system, you&#8217;ll know that windows that you close don&#8217;t reappear where they were when a session ends, such as after a crash or a logout. It&#8217;s been a long-standing problem, so much so that a fix for this unwanted behavior has been worked on for six years now.<\/p>\n<p>Well, if that annoying quirk kept you off Wayland, I have some excellent news. The xdg-session-management protocol, which started in February 2020 to make windows re-open where they were closed, has finally been merged, and KDE and GNOME are already working hard to make it a reality.<\/p>\n<p>                    <span data-field=\"label\" class=\"article-card-label\">Related<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"display-card-title \">\n<p>\t\t\tGNOME will pay you up to $100k a year to contribute to it, if you&#8217;re good enough<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p class=\"display-card-excerpt\">Applications are open right now.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xda-developers.com\/wayland-is-getting-a-6-year-long-fix-for-its-most-annoying-quirk-and-kde-and-gnome-are-already-implementing-it\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wayland is getting a 6-year-long fix for its most annoying quirk, and KDE and GNOME&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":228760,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.xdaimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/wm\/2026\/03\/linux-laptop-with-kde-plasma.jpg?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-228759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228759"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228761,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228759\/revisions\/228761"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}